How We Create Our World

[Jessup2]

Perceptual Filling In of Artificially Induced Scotomas in Human Vision.V. S. Ramachandran and R. L. Gregory in Nature, Vol. 350, pages 699-702; April 25, 1991.

 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mind-the-gap/

 

I will take this a step further. I suggest that we also use this process to create and support things that we perceive that don't fit the 5 senses. Sometimes by processing them through hearing things, seeing things, feeling things, etc.

It may be the closest sensory area we have to the energy at hand.

Then, the next point is, that we take that which we are perceiving, and give it form. These are usually mapped in the brain, and depend on the current state of mind. Like being afraid, producing frightening figures visually in the dark. Being elated or happy producing something like an angel, etc.

The energy form is there, whether an external source or some form of internal, or from this dimension, or another. The exception being, of course, hallucinations or images purely from fantasy or imagination that are not "real" energy.

 

[Jessup2]

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140627094551.htm

 

Radboud University Nijmegen. "Brain fills gaps to produce a likely picture." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 27 June 2014. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140627094551.htm>.

 

 

Edited December 20, 2017 by Jessup2

[Jessup2]

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/cp-aih111909.php

PUBLIC RELEASE: 25-NOV-2009

Auditory illusion: How our brains can fill in the gaps to create continuous sound

 

CELL PRESS

[Marblehead]

Yeah, our brain does a pretty good job at offering us illusions and delusions, especially in an advanced emotional state.

 

I sometimes watch the series program "Brain Games".  The program is centered around the thought that our brain lies to us all the time because it takes shortcuts, unable to deal with all the input data efficiently.

 

[Zhongyongdaoist]

Here is an interesting book reference that is well written, entertaining and a good introduction to the whole field:

 

On 6/21/2016 at 2:22 PM, Zhongyongdaoist said:

As for Neurology and “magic” anyone who is seriously examining such things as the topic of this thread, should thoroughly familiarize themselves with the ideas covered in this book:

 

On 11/28/2011 at 6:35 PM, Zhongyongdaoist said:

Sleights of Mind by Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde. This book is written by two professional neurologists and deals with how the brain is bamboozled by stage magicians. (Added link to this post, ZYD)

 

Which happens to be a very good read also.

 

It is important to realize though, that the brain's representation of our surroundings as "sensory experience", however imperfect or fallible, is not a mere a illusion, but just that, a representation, much like a television picture is a representation, and a very useful one at that.